If it's any consolation: we're boned, too, by proxy. And we have our share of idiots, too, of course. But you guys are boned first. And you might have to take one for the side. That's going to hurt, too.

Quote:A New York lawmaker is proposing a bill to rename a state park named after President Donald Trump in honor of the woman run down by a white supremacist in Charlottesville last month.

A bill set to be introduced by Assembly Member Nily Rozic directs the commissioner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to change the name of the park to “Heather D. Heyer State Park." The bill cites the commission's policy that “state parks should foster and strengthen the sense of purpose, well being and identity of the citizens of this state."

Quote:The thing about US politics is that politicians have REPEATEDLY said they would do something, then when they get into office they don't do those things. Obama promised change, and things are still as corrupt and shitty as before. Obamacare is NOT even remotely close to how Canadian and European healthcare works. The people know that politicians lie.

And, most importantly, most people realize that Trump is probably yet another liar. Why the hell are you taking your news sources as gospel? If you would think for yourselves for just ONE second and think about how your politics and news works and what has happened over the course of this election, you would realize that a sane candidate never had a chance. He would be written off as boring and persistently attacked while not being able to defend himself because of his morals.

Ask yourself this: If you wanted to become president and make America a better place to live in, how would you do it? You, as a sane person, do not have the backing of a SuperPAC or any other influence in the system. If you tried the normal way of a sensible platform and good charisma, you would be attacked and torn asunder for being weak and boring. But if you put on a farce, making outlandish and outright horrible claims that the media simply cannot ignore, you can work the system against itself and have an actually decent chance of getting elected. If you do get elected, you can back away from your more insane claims, rework other claims into more sensible ideas, and start pushing reforms that would make you DOA if you even made a peep about them. This latter plan would make you look remarkably like Trump.

Yes, by all appearances he's a complete idiot. But he has also been successful in enacting nearly all of his election promises, and the government behind him is functioning effectively without political footballs tampering with things.

Oh yeah he didn't, I was misremembering. If anything it looks like he backed away from his more insane claims, reworked other claims into more sensible ideas, and started pushing reforms that would've made him DOA if he even made a peep about them during the elections.

Trump's memory is shit, no point in trying to get him to memorize the words to a song about a country he doesn't care about. Why not just put an ear piece in his ear that clearly speaks the words of the next line to him?

The fact that this was probably considered, but Trump or an aide probably said, "naw, fuck it", because even that is too much effort is what bothers me.

You know, he's not even putting much effort into hiding or obfuscating his flagrant misuses of office because of two things:
1: his base is stupid and won't fact check, and don't care to. They are fed what to think by Fox and absorb that mindset into their own. Plus, even if they know the info is wrong, they LIKE that it is wrong, because fuck the left.
2: Trump knows that he doesn't need to try to hide from those that want to remove him; he know's they know, but don't have the power to do anything about it.